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By Sushil Kutty Is India awash in religion? India cannot help itself. Religion is so mixed with politics and everyday life in India that it bristles. This, despite the country’s apex court asserting in1994 that mixing religion with politics was fraught with danger. Today, the same Supreme Court has by far a far more liberal […]

The post Narendra Modi Is Chanting ‘Make The Temples Great Again’ On The Lines Of Trump first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Congress has appointed YS Sharmila, the party chief of Andhra Pradesh. But Sharmila, who is the politically estranged sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, has a rather weak Andhra Pradesh unit of the Congress to fight her brother Jagan, who in turn is fighting anti-incumbency as well […]

The post Sharmila-Led Congress Throws A Big Challenge To Jagan Reddy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty US Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley’s third place finish in Iowa means she should be out of the race. But the Indian-origin Republican’s Democrat voters are not ready for her to call it quits, as yet. Her dollar-donors also have skin in the game. Nikki Haley spent more dollars per vote than Ron […]

The post Is Nikki Haley A Favourite Of Leftwing Democrats To Defeat Trump? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ is going ahead with its goal to bring peace to all the places through which it passes. Also fight for justice to people of all colour, creed and caste. It started in the violence-hit Manipur where both the Kuki and Meitei communities believed Rahul Gandhi had […]

The post Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ Rekindles Fresh Hope first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The opposition INDI-Alliance is confident that unity among opposition parties will fetch easy victories against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the majority of the 543 constituencies in 2024 because in 2019, Modi’s victorious party could get only 38 percent of the total votes polled, while the remaining 62 percent were “cast against” […]

The post INDIA Bloc Parties Should Do Their Best To Raise The Voting Percentage In Their Favour first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The opposition INDI-Alliance is confident that unity among opposition parties will fetch easy victories against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the majority of the 543 constituencies in 2024 because in 2019, Modi’s victorious party could get only 38 percent of the total votes polled, while the remaining 62 percent were “cast against” […]

The post INDIA Bloc Parties Should Do Their Best To Raise The Voting Percentage In Their Favour first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The opposition INDI-Alliance is confident that unity among opposition parties will fetch easy victories against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the majority of the 543 constituencies in 2024 because in 2019, Modi’s victorious party could get only 38 percent of the total votes polled, while the remaining 62 percent were “cast against” […]

The post INDIA Bloc Parties Should Do Their Best To Raise The Voting Percentage In Their Favour first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Something always is happening with West Bengal Governors. There was Jagdeep Dhankar who is now Vice President and whose mimicry by a Trinamool Congress leader has immortalized Dhankar whether he likes it or not. Now, there’s Governor CV Ananda Bose. And, by gosh, Ananda Bose can be as chillingly fiery like the […]

The post Trinamool Workers Attacking The ED People Reveals The State Of Law And Order In Bengal first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister Y S Sharmila is not what her name suggests—shy, placid… She has been a rebel after a cause, and so has done what she had set out to do, become a part of the Congress—which was her father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s […]

The post Can Sharmila’s Entry Into Congress Revive The Fortunes Of The Party Before Lok Sabha Polls? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s “imminent arrest” has been on the cards for two-three days and the AAP convener has been milking every drop of sympathy from talk of his imminent “arrest”. That said, while half of Delhi is convinced Kejriwal is corrupt to the core, the other half is still making […]

The post Delhi Chief Minister’s Arrest By Friday By ED Is A Distinct Possibility Now first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It sounds odd calling Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’, “nationwide east-to-west yatra”. The yatra is east-to-west, but not nationwide. Cutting through 14 states and 85 districts is not the entirety of India. It is another matter if it has a nationwide impact. Also, the claim that the Congress “hopes” to win 150 […]

The post Congress’s Bharat Nyay Yatra Will Clash With 2024 Poll Preparations At Ground Level first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Watch out. Will Maharashtra Lok Sabha elections throw up surprises? The state dangles like a ripe fruit for the taking. Everybody is just waiting. The alliances, they seem they’re many. What happened to the Maha Vikas Aghadi, and did the BJP and the Shinde Shiv Sena combine have a name before Ajit […]

The post INDIA Bloc Has Lot Of Issues To Sort Out For Arriving At An Agreement In Maharashtra first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Ram Mandir and Hindu revival are the talk of the town in the Hindi heartland. The BJP talks of a 400-plus Lok Sabha seats harvest in the 2024 general elections riding on the back of Ram Mandir, the symbol of Hindu revival. Can anyone stop the juggernaut? The Hindi heartland, to which […]

The post INDIA Bloc Caught In BJP’s Ram Mandir Trap first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty There is political turmoil in India and American politics is coming to a boil. The fate of democracy, yeah? Should it bother us, common Indians, what happens in the USA? The excitement and the daily rumblings. If in India, it is theatrics on the steps of Parliament, in the United States, it […]

The post Republican Presidential Campaign In US Is In Turmoil As Vivek Ramaswamy Backs Trump first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Some of the politically powerful Reddys of Andhra Pradesh have a grouse with fellow Reddy and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy who also faces anti-incumbency just like K Chandrashekar Rao of Telangana faced and lost. So, the YSR Congress Party is kind of vulnerable right now and the Congress […]

The post Congress Buoyed With Telangana Win, Finding It Tough In Andhra Pradesh first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty So after all the “jalsas” to crown chief ministers of three states — Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, forget Telangana, it is ‘Congressi’ — a probe has been ordered on the Parliament security breach, with the Modi government’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi telling the country, shamed by a bunch of unemployed […]

The post The So-Called ‘High Level Probe’ Assured By Minister Pralhad Joshi Is Nothing But A Hoax first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Parliament attack ‘mastermind’ Lalit Mohan Jha is in police custody. Four of his underlings – if he is ‘mastermind’, indeed – have been charged with terrorism under various sections of the UAPA, supposedly one of the toughest anti-terror legislations anywhere in the world. Does that mean, Neelam Devi, Sagar Sharma, Manoranjan D., […]

The post The Curious Case Of ‘Hindu Terrorists’ Involved In Breach Of Parliament’s Security first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Neelam ‘Azad’ is 42 and a student forever. Armed with a string of educational qualifications, Neelam couldn’t land a job and may not ever land one now that a case under UAPA has been lodged against her and the five others who planned and carried out the attack on Parliament on the […]

The post The Gang Of Six Breaching Parliament Security Needs Patient Hearing From Govt first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Is Kashmir now settled issue? The Supreme Court verdict says ‘Yes’ and National Conference Chief Farooq Abdullah put his seal of approval to the Supreme Court verdict on the abrogation of Article 370. Nobody could have put it more succinctly than Farooq Abdullah, not even his son Omar Abdullah. In King’s language, […]

The post Irrespective Of Supreme Court Verdict, Kashmir Remains An Unsettled Issue first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Three-terms in a row and knowing well that he faced the axe, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan thought long and short and took the dive for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who dumped him to safeguard his own future. Modi fought on his own “name and face” to guarantee a third-time for himself […]

The post Will Depriving Shivraj Singh Chouhan Of Chief Ministership Help BJP In 2024 Polls? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Delay in picking Chief Ministers for Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan is telling on the mental agility of claimants for the post in all three states. Look at outgoing Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan who can’t stand in one spot for more than an hour at a piece. He is all […]

The post Delaying Selection Of Chief Ministers Does Not Speak Well Of BJP Leadership first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the BJP victories in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were because of ‘team spirit’ in the Bharatiya Janata Party. Is that so, who is the Prime Minister fooling? Team spirit is the last thing in the saffron party. Team spirit goes for a toss when everything that […]

The post No Trace Of ‘Team Spirit’ In BJP, Only Modi Eulogy And Hindutva first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Anumula Revanth Reddy is the new Telangana Chief Minister. Also known as ‘Tiger’ Revanth, he took Bharat Rashtra Samithi supremo K Chandrashekar Rao’s place. Reddy is the first Congress Chief Minister of Telangana and faces the daunting task of reviving Telangana’s financial fortunes. For those who believe ‘KCR’ left Telangana in the […]

The post New Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy Has To Deliver In Lok Sabha Polls For Congress first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The first thing Prime Minister Narendra Modi did after cornering three states in the ‘Hindi heartland’ was to address Indian Navy personnel on Navy Day and proclaim that ranks in the Indian Navy will be renamed so that the ranks reflected Indian culture. The uniforms of sailors and officers of the Indian […]

The post Are The Uniforms Of Indian Navy Personnel Being Changed To Suit The BJP first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty There is some confusion on whether India should consider itself “Vishwaguru” or be wise and hold back on the boast? One view is why go the extra mile with the “present government’s exaggerated sense of the country’s global power and indigenous capability”, i.e., Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “macho manner” and muscular foreign […]

The post Indian Foreign Diplomacy Is In A Mess Despite All The Talk Of Vishwaguru first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The still nascent state of Telangana is up for its first great opportunity with Telangana Chief Minister, the great K. Chandrashekar Rao – ‘KCR’ for short – poised to make his exit if the exit polls of November 30 are to go by. The exit polls have given Telangana to the Congress […]

The post Congress Will Have A Big Breakthrough If The Party Wins In Telangana first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The release of a book on November 29 in New Delhi brought the focus back on the INDI-Alliance, which was seen to be losing its direction and purpose in recent weeks much to the chagrin of those who wanted to see the back of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government come […]

The post Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge Has Earned The Trust Of INDIA Bloc first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty In these days of political significance, ‘appeasement’ is the word, the favourite of the rightwing to beat the leftwing with –- who in turn, while disapproving of appeasement, openly embraced Muslim minority appeasement for electoral dividends. Other minorities like the Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh and Parsi are considered too politically insignificant for […]

The post Bihar Chief Minister’s Decision On School Holidays Is Not Politically Wise first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Telangana votes on November 30. Two days later votes cast will be counted and by afternoon of the same day, which party will be ruling Telangana would be known. If it is the Bharatiya Janata Party, the party has promised an Other Backward Caste Chief Minister. The party will also end “Muslim […]

The post BJP Chanakya Amit Shah Has Offered A Redesigned Package Of Hindutva To Telangana Voters first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Results of 199 Rajasthan Assembly seats where polling took place on Saturday will decide which party rules the state for the next five years. Since 1998 no party has been repeated twice in succession in Rajasthan. By that token, the Congress would be taking a break from December 3. But Rajasthan Chief […]

The post For Ashok Gehlot, The Outcome Of Assembly Polls In Rajasthan Will Determine His Future first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.